Re: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths Each Year

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

I don't know where the 23 comes from, but here is a citable source and some
numbers:

from the DEIS for Yucca Mountain (DOE/EIS-1250D), Appendix J, table J-48.

Collective dose to the public from incident-free transportation of ALL
shipments by mostly truck to Yucca Mountain, over a 24 year period

35000 person-rem, which using the LNT theory estimates 17 "latent cancer
fatalities" (LCF).

For mostly rail transportation (fewer shipments) this reduces to about 2
LCFs.

Projected LCFs from releases during accidents are much less.

I hasten to point out that the assumptions that go into these estimates are
enormously conservative, and err always on the side of over-estimating
health effects and radiation dose.  And the LNT theory is always used.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths Each
Year


>On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Susan Gawarecki wrote:
>
>> comparison to the 23 excess deaths predicted from exposure to radiation
>> from transport of nuclear waste.
>
> --This is the second recent reference to this. What is the source
>of the estimate of 23 deaths from nuclear waste transport? Is this deaths
>per year? If so it is orders of magnitude larger than numbers I have seen
>before, generated by Sandia Lab, I believe.
>
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